The Spirit of Gardening "Quote of the Day"

[thcnology]

Now the gardener is the one who has seen everything ruined so many times
that (even as his pain increases with each loss) he comprehends - truly
knows - that where there was a garden once, it can be again, or where
there never was, there yet can be a garden.
- Henry Mitchell​

 

[sokalkush]

thanks for that quote, it's beautiful! definitely captures the spirit of a gardener.

please keep em coming...

 

[thcnology]

In the other gardens
And all up the vale,
From the autumn bonfires
See the smoke trail!

Pleasant summer over
And all the summer flowers,
The red fire blazes,
The grey smoke towers.

Sing a song of seasons!
Something bright in all!
Flowers in the summer,
Fires in the fall!
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Autumn Fires​

 

[FastForward]

"This fukk3n weather is doing my head in", FastForward 2008 :)

 

[thcnology]

I have a strong antipathy to everything connected with gardens, gardening and
gardeners. ... Gardening seems to me a kind of admission of defeat. ... Man
was made for better things than pruning his rose trees. The state of mind of
the confirmed gardener seems to me as reprehensible as that of the confirmed
alcoholic. Both have capitulated to the world.
Both have become lotus eaters and drifters.
- Colin Wilson, A Book of Gardens, 1963​

 

[thcnology]

A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand,
and draw in his arm, his leg, and his whole body to irresistible destruction.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson​

 

[spinkus]

Feeling dark today are we??

 

[thcnology]

You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think.
- Dorothy Parker​

 

[thcnology]

Something a little funnier today?

 

[thcnology]

A flower is an educated weed.
- Luther Burbank​

 

[thcnology]

At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were
criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later years.
They allow us to peer into bits and zones of Chaos.
- Timothy Leary ​

 

[thcnology]

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower. - Author Unknown​

 

[thcnology]

If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain.
If you want ten years of prosperity, grow trees.
If you want one hundred years of prosperity, grow people.
- Chinese Proverb​

 

[thcnology]

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose,
and the eyes will take care of themselves.
- Robert Louis Stevenson​

 

[thcnology]

Give me strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is.
- Black Elk​

 

[thcnology]

"October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure
is more beautiful than the month of coming - October than May. Every green thing loves to
die in bright colors."
- Henry Ward Beecher​

 

[thcnology]

"The hazy, cloudless skies of Indian Summer. Leaves scurrying down the street
before the wind. The cold shiver from an arctic blast. Indian Summer. The last
warmth of the sun. Chilly mornings and glorious warm afternoons. The Harvest
Moon. The Hunter's Moon. The Rainy Season. Dry corn stalks clattering in the
wind. The touch of frost on grass and window pane. The smell of burning leaves."
- Keith C. Heidorn ​

 

[thcnology]

“After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.” -Will Rogers​

 

[thcnology]

Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment
to a community. When people plant corn they are saying,
let's stay here. And by their connection to the land,
they are connected to one another.
- Anne Raver​

 

[thcnology]

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson​